...During their sorrowful journey, Jesus himself approaches and begins to walk with the two.  The Risen Lord is intuitively aware of their negative beliefs of course, but before admonishing them, he asks them to expound further about their distressed state.  What follows is arguably the longest continual one-way dialog anyone has with Jesus in the Gospels (Luke 24: 18-24).  It appears Jesus is simply allowing them to get grief, frustration, and hopelessness out of their system.  Nevertheless, Jesus knew that catharsis alone was not enough to transform these sojourners.  He understood that only by firmly calling them out on their irrational and unsubstantiated beliefs could progress be made....